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  • ADA OR ARDOR
    ADA OR ARDOR
    VLADIMIR NABOKOV / VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVIC NABOKOV
    Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship and, decades later, put their extraordinary experiences into words. ...
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  • BERLITZ PHRASE BOOK AND DICTIONARY SPANISH (BILINGUAL DICTIONARY)
    BERLITZ PHRASE BOOK AND DICTIONARY SPANISH (BILINGUAL DICTIONARY)
    BERLITZ PUBLISHING
    Berlitz Phrasebook and Dictionary Spanish: a convenient, contemporary travel companion from Berlitz's trusted language experts - With its emphasis on conversational usage, and up-to-date language on social media, leisure, business - and more - this is the only phrase book you'll need when exploring Spain - Includes 3000-word bilingual dictionary - Visually appealing colour-codi...
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    8,75 €

  • BARCELONA
    BARCELONA
    GARY MCDONOGH / SERGI MARTINEZ-RIGOL
    Barcelona has existed as a settlement for two millennia. Early civilizations shaped the city before it achieved, in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, global power as a trading metropolis and empire capital. After a long struggle with the unifying Spanish state, the city revived, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as an industrial and commercial powerhouse. It became a c...
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    18,75 €

  • THUNDERHEAD
    THUNDERHEAD
    MIRANDA DARLING
    'Darkly funny, astute, timely' Sofie Laguna, author of The Eye of the Sheep 'Powerful, restless, irresistible' Laura Jean McKay, author of The Animals in That Country A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman's struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway begins her day -- in the peaceful early hours before her children, that 'tiny tornado of little hands and feet', wake up...
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  • ALCHEMY OF SECRETS
    ALCHEMY OF SECRETS
    STEPHANIE GARBER
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    21,25 €

  • THE LION AND THE UNICORN
    THE LION AND THE UNICORN
    RICHARD ALDOUS
    'Engaging and highly entertaining' Sunday Times The dramatic confrontation between the two 'mighty opposites' of the Victorian age, brilliantly recreated by a talented young historian. Gladstone and Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals of the modern age. Their intense hatred was ideological and deeply personal. Victorian Britain ruled the oceans and vast territories 'o...
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  • THE WHITE TIGER
    THE WHITE TIGER
    ARAVIND ADIGA
    Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. As he drives his master to shopping malls and call ce...
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    12,50 €

  • EMBERCLAW
    EMBERCLAW
    LAURA LAM
    The final book in a lush and inventive fantasy duology with a slowburn romance, in which long-banished dragons, revered as gods, return to the mortal realm. Arcady faces their greatest heist yet: posing as a noble student at the arcane University of Vatra. When the University announces the reinstatement of archaic trials of magic, the ever-penniless Arcady seizes the chance. If...
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  • THE BREAKTHROUGH
    THE BREAKTHROUGH
    DAPHNE DU MAURIER / ANON
    Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of life if the promise of fulfilment lies elsewhere? On the windswept coast of rural Suffolk, a deranged scientist attempts to extract the essence of life itself. ...
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    3,75 €

  • ROCK SPRINGS
    ROCK SPRINGS
    RICHARD FORD
    The stories in this collection are about ordinary women, men and children. Unemployed, on the way back to prison, marriages in tatters, they confront their fates with hard-won optimisms, humour and flashes of insight. ...
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    14,50 €

  • A SPELL OF GOOD THINGS
    A SPELL OF GOOD THINGS
    AYOBAMI ADEBAYO
    "Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. Because his father has lost his job, Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor, collecting newspapers, begging when he must, dreaming of a big future. Wuraola is a golden girl, the perfect child of a wealthy family. Now an exhausted young doctor in her first year of practice, she is beloved by Kunle, the...
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  • DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE DEEP END (BOOK 15)
    DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE DEEP END (BOOK 15)
    JEFF KINNEY
    In The Deep End, book 15 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley and his family hit the road for a cross-country camping trip, ready for the adventure of a lifetime. But things take an unexpected turn, and they find themselves stranded at a campsite that's not exactly a summertime paradise. When the skies open up an...
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  • WE ARE YOUR SOLDIERS
    WE ARE YOUR SOLDIERS
    ALEX ROWELL
    'A gripping account. Essential reading to understand the roots of the 2011 Arab Spring and the conflicts that have devastated so much of the region' EUGENE ROGAN, author of The Arabs: A History ______________________________________________ President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who ruled Egypt for eighteen years from the coup d'etat of 1952, is best known in the West for wresting the ...
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    31,25 €

  • ACCESS ALL AREAS
    ACCESS ALL AREAS
    BARBARA CHARONE
    First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand, the changes in the cultural landscape. Access All Areas is a personal, insightful and humorous memoir packed with stories of being on the cultural frontline, from first writing press releases on a typewriter driven by Tip Ex, then as a pres...
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    25,00 €

  • NOT IN LOVE (US PPB)
    NOT IN LOVE (US PPB)
    ALI HAZELWOOD
    An Indie Next and a Hall of Fame LibraryReads Pick!A forbidden, secret affair proves that all's fair in love and science—from New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood.Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of...
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    14,50 €

  • WOMEN DON'T OWE YOU PRETTY
    WOMEN DON'T OWE YOU PRETTY
    FLORENCE GIVEN
    ***NEW EDITION WITH BONUS CHAPTER*** Bringing you the record-breaking, bestselling Women Don't Owe You Pretty as a black and white modern classic. Women Don't Owe You Pretty is for anyone who wants to challenge the out-dated narratives supplied to us by the patriarchy. It will help you to embrace feminism in all its messy glory, explain that you are the love of your own life...
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    11,25 €

  • THE HOUSE OF IMPOSSIBLE BEAUTIES
    THE HOUSE OF IMPOSSIBLE BEAUTIES
    JOSEPH CASSARA
    NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed * Esquire * Bustle * The Millions * The Wall Street Journal * Entertainment Weekly * Nylon * Elle * Dazed * The Irish Times 'Cassara has written a heartbreaking tale of gay men struggling to survive in a world of clubbing and drugs. It is also an unexpected love story.' Graham Norton, Top Five Reads of 2018 'Cassaras's propulsiv...
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    11,25 €

  • KING OF THE WORLD
    KING OF THE WORLD
    PHILIP MANSEL
    WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2019'The ultimate biography of the Sun King, Louis XIV' Simon Sebag Montefiore A TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE and TABLET BOOK OF THE YEAR Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, dominated his age. In the second half of the seventeenth century, he extended France's frontiers into the Netherlands and Germany, and establ...
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    21,25 €

  • GILGAMESH : A NEW TRANSLATION OF THE ANCIENT EPIC
    GILGAMESH : A NEW TRANSLATION OF THE ANCIENT EPIC
    SOPHUS HELLE
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    14,99 €

  • CALIBAN'S WAR
    CALIBAN'S WAR
    JAMES S. A. COREY
    We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the sol...
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    13,75 €

  • TALES FROM THE SECRET FOOTBALLER
    TALES FROM THE SECRET FOOTBALLER
    ANON
    The Secret Footballer is back. And this time his mates speak out too. Players, agents, coaches and managers give you access all areas. From deal-making to play-making, from dodgy tactics to drunken antics, they reveal the unforgettable highs and the unforgivable lows. This is football as you've never seen it before. ...
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  • PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION: COLLECTOR'S EDITION (NETFLIX TIE-IN)
    PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION: COLLECTOR'S EDITION (NETFLIX TIE-IN)
    EMILY HENRY
    Emily Henry's sparkling New York Times bestselling novel—now in a beautiful movie tie-in collector's edition featuring:· Exclusive Netflix movie art· Gorgeous, leafy sprayed edges· A bonus essay by Emily Henry about the novel's journey from page to screen!Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in com...
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    21,25 €

  • THE CRANFORD CHRONICLES
    THE CRANFORD CHRONICLES
    ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
    Cranford is a sleepy northern town, but modern life, in the shape of the new railway, is pushing its way relentlessly towards it from Manchester, bringing with it new opportunities and excitement. The arrival of handsome young Doctor Harrison causes further agitation, not just because of his revolutionary methods but also because of his effects on the hearts of the ladies. Mean...
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  • STORIES FOR 4 YEAR OLDS
    STORIES FOR 4 YEAR OLDS
    JULIA ECCLESHARE
    A classic collection of tales to tell children of about four, featuring beloved characters and lively stories, by Michael Bond, Jill Barklem, Anne Fine amongst others, chosen by children's book expert, Julia Eccleshare. Paddington Bear has a magical moment, the animals of Brambly Hedge are struggling at the dusty mill: Lara's godmother sorts out a noisy lion and Rapunzel is r...
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    9,99 €

  • THE FEMALE QUIXOTE
    THE FEMALE QUIXOTE
    CHARLOTTE LENNOX
    A young woman is caught up in her ideas about romance and valor in this celebrated eighteenth-century parody of Don Quixote Beautiful and independent, Arabella has been brought up in rural seclusion by her widowed father. Devoted to reading French romances, the sheltered young woman imagines all sorts of misadventures that can befall a heroine such as herself. As she makes fora...
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    16,25 €

  • THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM BOXSET
    THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM BOXSET
    CIXIN LIU
    SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES THE AWARD-WINNING, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, MILLION-COPY-SELLING SCI-FI PHENOMENON Imagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. Imagine what might happen to any civilisation unwise enough to broadcast its location. This is Cixin Liu's THREE-BODY PROBLEM TRILOGY. Weaving a complex web of stratagem, subterfuge, philosophy and p...
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    39,99 €

  • KILLING HOPE
    KILLING HOPE
    WILLIAM BLUM
    In Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America's covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the 1940s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and - in this updated edition - beyond. Is the United States, as it likes to claim, a global...
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    23,75 €

  • GLOBAL CRISIS
    GLOBAL CRISIS
    GEOFFREY PARKER
    An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parker's prize-winning best seller Global Crisis analyzes the unprecedented calamities--revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, and regicides--that befell the mid-seventeenth-century world and wiped out as ...
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    19,99 €

  • GREENLIGHTS
    GREENLIGHTS
    MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Discover the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award(R)-winning actor's unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction."The No. 1 celebrity memoir of the past 10 years."--USA Today "McConaughey's book invites us to grapple with the les...
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    13,75 €

  • BRITNEY
    BRITNEY
    DANNY WHITE
    She has sold more than 150 million albums, wowed sell-out audiences around the globe, and starred in iconic music videos, but Britney Spears' success has come with an unbearable price tag. This biography uncovers the story of how this church-going girl from the Deep South became an objectified teenage sensation and the princess of pop. It follows her rollercoaster existence ...
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    18,75 €